Seems easier to use than the old site, though I do want it to be more "unique", more "GameSpot."

Not sure how I lost a few thousand posts. Probably the unions that got cut.

CPU: AMD FX-8350 "Vishera" octocore @ 4.00 GHz (unlocked but not O.C. yet)

Mobo: MSI-970A-G46

GPU: Sapphire Vapor-X Radeon 7970 GHz, 3GB GDDR5 RAM, core clock >1GHz

RAM: 16GB DDR3 @ 1866MHz

HDD: WD CaviarBlue 1TB @ 7200 RPM

OS: Windows 7 HP 64-bit

edit: plays Skyrim on ultra flawlessly

Previous specs (not including laptop because it doesn't have graphics card)

AMD Athlon x2 @ 2.2 GHz

ASUS Radeon 9600 Pro (400MHz clock, 128MB 128bit RAM @600MHz)

1GB of DDR400 RAM

80GB 7200 RPM HDD (OS), 200GB 5400RPM HDD (home folder)

Windows XP Pro, Ubuntu 12.10

No need to save random SFW things on my comp then as long as I keep it organised and bandwith under 10GB. :P

In case you haven't seen yet. Basically, most of the things we / people we know were moderated / banned for are no longer considered illicit. This is what we have been pushing for, as long as I have been here, but it begs an important question now: will OT and GS as a whole turn into another cliquey or YouTube like webspace now that we are no longer pushing the envelope within a very stringent set of rules? I feel like my new union was made a few years too late now.

I'm making another union guys. It'll really be pushing the envelope. TSU lost its steam but its Gamespot niche is ripe for the taking now. I remember the thread on ask the mods: "If my parents knew about this site they would cut off my internet connection forever." That's how much people pissed themselves over there being a Satanist answer on gamespot. This time I aim to get an even bigger response. Trying to find the above thread, but until then: This

2004, I first started browsing Gamespot. Everything on the net was html. Not as colourful nor as flashy, pun intended, but everything was simple to use and easy to navigate. Everything was in plain sight. This goes for many other websites as well, like photobucket, myspace, fileden, nintendo, etc. True, things had a standard then as well - small logo banner at the top with login field, navigation column at the left, content in the middle pretty far down the page. And things have a standard today - minimalistic, rounded, scroll-over navigation plane underneath the logo banner, large flash slideshow underneath, more flash graphics below. And all the goddamned ads flying around obstructing your intents. Hell, even archive.org has too many effects, but I encourage you to use it to see your longtime internet page friends when you first started browsing them, and tell me which manifestation you prefer. I have to give Facebook credit for remaining minimalistic in design - maybe that's why everyone picked up on it. Photobucket deserves a special place here. It used to be such a useful tool for easily uploading and managing photos, but I guess they are trying to keep it alive by making it a quasi-image editor and having a flash uploader and manager. Get real. Let's say something happens to your computer, thousands of your photos are still stored online from years back. Now you try to down them all but the process is far too sluggish and buggy to bother. If it isn't broke, and none of these sites were, why try to fix it? Does anybody like that your gamespot complete colours aren't present on the new boards except in messages? Maybe the old one will remind you how good it was. Does anybody think that the new profiles are superior to the old ones? Where the f*** can i find someone's UCB? The old one would be flawless if you took away the 'signature' space and put the journal/blog there. Nothing posted on the community blog/announcements should be longer than what can fit here. What happened to community stats, leaderboards? Were the forums shrank so that they became easier to view on larger monitors, or were they shrank to dress the page in advertisements nobody cares about that secretly spy on you and give your information to the f*ds? Also, I'm not sure wtf a path error is but BBCode saved this post. I don't remember so many errors in the old forums. We going to deliver something great in the near future... stay tuned...

All the rulesf**s, the a-holery is getting old. GS is worth $2 Billion, I understand the concept of protecting a reputation. But the constraints placed on the community will be its downfall. UCBs were destroyed by unions. Discussion was destroyed by the mods taking over roll call and the end of a community concept. Everyone knows something is wrong but all we can say is that it are the rules. they allowed us to partially censor bypass to give the illusion that the rules have laxed, yet it's not like anybody couldn't figure out what **** meant in context. More lights and mirrors. The old days - we remember the personalities that made it great. Yet I'm sure that the people we have today are JUST AS GOOD. But with the end of discussion in the name of discussion, we're f***ed. Nobody reads your blog. That's a cop-out to create the illusion that GS sees its users as real people, same thing with the mod-controlled Roll Calls. Thread hijacking, thank you Kcube for helping me make OT great for one evening. Thread hijacking let us make a CONNECTION to a user. So people started branching off into new sites, OT2, OT3, OT4... and failed to secure themselves from the same fate. It's not censoring your posts that killed the community - that never really changed anything. It's censoring your ability to communicate freely. The new sites became clique-y no-holds barred **** where everyone who is 'in' was made to feel welcome and modpowers were given away like candy. Meanwhile nobody is made to feel welcome because we fail to remember that the new folks are just as good when given a chance. So let me ask you guys: what is it you are holding on to in your old cliques? Get rid of the 'discussion' in the title 'Off-Topic Discussion' or call it 'Random Discussion' and things will be fine (why do you think only girl, politics, music, and religion threads survive?) You don't have to heed me.. the forum is doomed otherwise. But when the time comes, you'll know what went wrong.

My website is gone, but you can still find the archive on the Atheism Union board.

And what I have found that they mean: Immature - not doing what other people want you to do. Jerk - exposing that you do not have to do what other people want you to do. Ass - not doing what other people want you to do, and exposing that you do not have to do what they want you to do. Selfish (as an insult) - denying people of what they want from you. Selfish - wanting something for yourself. I hope you guys see the irony in the use of the words. Generally, someone uses 'selfish' as an insult against you --- because they want something from you.

This is a running list of most of the links in my 'Evolution' bookmarks folder and I would like to keep them in a blog post so that I have immediate access to the whole HTML and do not have to spend minutes adding the markup. If someone feels the inclination to compile all the geological and chemical evidence for an Old Earth scenario, that would be much appreciated. Observed instances of speciation. Neanderthal genome sequencing Humans and Neanderthals shared Earth Transitional fossil FAQ Transitional fossils of hominid skulls The Origin of Whales List of transitional fossils Hundreds of human genes still evolving Human and ape chromosomes Ken Miller talks about the evolution of blood clotting Ken Miller on Whale Evolution Ken Miller on Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District Early Man Couldn't "Stomach" Milk 29+ Evidences for Macroevolution Miller-Urey Experiment The Flagellum Unspun NASA: Nitrogen, lightning key to early life on Earth NASA: Scientists Propose New Theory of Early Life on Earth Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District Purpose of Appendix Believed Found Germs Get 'Badder' in Space Common Ancestor of All Apes Walked Upright Something Fishy About Human Fingers Neanderthals Had Language Gene Identical to Ours Early Humans used Makeup, Ate Seafood Chimps as Irrationally Possessive as Humans Earth's Oxygen-Rich Atmosphere Older Than Thought Climate Change Didn't Kill Neanderthals Early Humans Could Walk, Not Run 'Baby Talk' Universally Understood Men With 'Caveman' Faces More Attractive to Women Skull Suggests Two Early Human Species Existed at the Same Time Intelligent Design on Trial Are Mutations Harmful? Introduction to Evolutionary Biology Missing Link Between Fish and Land Animals Precambrian Fossils Permian-Triassic Extinction Event Oldest Homo Sapiens Found, Experts Say Neanderthals Not our Ancestors, DNA Study Suggests Cannibalism Normal For Early Humans? Neanderthals Had Highly Capable Hands, Study Suggests Did Neanderthals Lack Smarts to Survive? Java Skull Raises Questions about Human Origins First Humans in Australia Dated to 50,000 Years Ago 1.8 Million Year-Old Hominid Jaw Found When Did "Modern Behavior" in Humans Arise? Fossil Implies Our Early Kin Lived in Trees Skull Fossil Opens Window Into Early Period of Human Origins Study Supports Idea That Primates, Dinosaurs Co-Existed Evolution of the Horse BBC: Evolution of Man Darwin's Finches Evolving Fast Velociraptor Had Feathers Speciation Understanding Evolution Human Evolution - Skeletal Details Transitional Vertebrate Fossils FAQ Demographic Histories of ERV-K in Humans, Chimpanzees, and Rhesus Monkeys Uranium-Lead Dating First Foundational Falsehood of Creationism Second Foundational Falsehood of Creationism Third Foundational Falsehood of Creationism Fourth Foundational Falsehood of Creationism Fifth Foundational Falsehood of Creationism Sixth Foundational Falsehood of Creationism Seventh Foundational Falsehood of Creationism Eighth Foundational Falsehood of Creationism Ninth Foundational Falsehood of Creationism Tenth Foundational Falsehood of Creationism Eleventh Foundational Falsehood of Creationism The Twelfth Foundational Falsehood of Creationism The Thirteenth Foundational Falsehood of Creationism Bacteria Make Major Evolutionary Shift in the Lab Discovery of UK's Newest Plant Species Self-Replicating Molecules Reported by MIT Volcanoes May Have Provided Sparks and Chemistry for First Life Details of Transition from Fish to Land Animals Revealed New Fossil Reveals Primates Lingered in Texas